3 Million New Users Joined Telegram Within 24 hours

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced an outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms.

TELEGRAM.

Telegram claims to have had a surge in sign-ups within the last 24 hours, at the time duration when its rival messaging services were facing downtime.

“I see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours,” Durov wrote on his Telegram channel. “Good. We have true privacy and unlimited space for everyone.”

Telegram adopted end-to-end encryption support way back in 2013 – three years before WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

Telegram messenger has introduced many unique features in recent months that no other widely-adopted messaging app is yet offering. Two of these features include:

Multiple Account Support: Users can add up to 3 Telegram accounts and easily switch between them simultaneously without logging out.

“In 5+ years, Telegram disclosed exactly zero bytes of private data to third-parties including governments. That’s why Telegram is banned by authoritarian governments such as Russia and Iran. Other apps such as WhatsApp have no issues with there,” Durov said in a tweet.

Since Durov telegram message doesn’t offer any explanation for the sudden spike in the Telegram sign-ups, Hack Hex has reached out to him and will update this article as soon as we hear back.